Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Palazzo del Te; Chamber of the Emperors
Alternate Title:
Palazzo Te; Camera degli Imperatori
Image View:
Detail, inlaid floor
Creator:
workshop of Giulio Romano (Italian artist, 1499-1546)
Location:
site: Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Viale Te, 13
GPS:
45.14737 10.78728
Date:
ca. 1530-1531 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
stuccowork
Work Type 2:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
carved plaster; pigment on plaster (fresco); gilding
Technique:
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); gilding (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; decorative arts; rulers and leaders; Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.; Caesar, Julius
Description:
The room is named for the subjects painted on the vault, exalted as virtuous examples of rulers drawn from ancient history. The center hexagon features Caesar burning the incriminating letters of Pompey in an act of clemency. On the long walls are two tondi, one of Alexander saving the books of Homer (south wall), the other of the continence of Scipio (north wall). The curved vaults have six rectangles with full length standing portraits of Alexander the Great (east wall); Julius Caesar; Signifer or sign holder (south wall); Augustus (west wall); Warrior; Philip of Macedonia (north wall). The lower frieze in grisaille is late eighteenth century (the original has been lost). (Source: Palazzo Te [website]; http://www.palazzote .it)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
1A1-RG-PT-I-COE-A17
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Palazzo del Te; Chamber of the Emperors